Quotes About Adversity

Satan will not continue to assault you if the circumstances he designed to destroy you are now working to perfect you!

Most human beings, in other words, would rather fight than starve.19

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

a unit can either fight a real enemy, or it must lose. And again, a unit not fighting a real enemy is in the service of another power - there is no middle ground. If a unit is not fighting for itself, it is fighting against itself.

The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Hath any wronged thee, be bravely revenged. Slight it, and the work?s begun; forgive it, and ?tis finished. He is below himself that is not above an injury.

Seest thou good days? Prepare for evil times. No summer but hath its winter. He never reaped comfort in adversity that sowed not in prosperity.

Yeah, it's true we're all dealt a set of cards. But it's also true that it's up to us to figure out how to play the hand.

Nous sommes comme les glaces, dit Manuel à voix basse. La vie nous fait parfois chavirer et nous change de forme.

Pero, cuando comienzan las desgracias en uno, parece que nunca se han de acabar, que andan encadenadas y unas traian a otras.

Lo malo de un fracaso es que tapona la vida, cierra otros posibles caminos hacia el éxito.

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated.

We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you. I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

For most of the universe's inhabitants, life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption, abuse, and adversity in all its guises, where even to survive - let alone survive with dignity - is heroic. To soldier through the days in the wake of failure is the courageous act of many.

You can't warm a stone by slapping it, Sally. You'd only bruise yourself. A stone is neither cruel nor tender. You've married a man of stone, Sally.

Rejection was arbitrary. Rejection was survivable.

As our physical muscles grow weaker, our emotional muscles grow stronger, and we're better at seeing the comedy in the tragedy, the advance in the setback, the good in the bad.